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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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CABBON
a town in the low country of Judah. (Joshua 15:40)
CABUL
One of the landmarks on the boundary of Asher, (Joshua 19:27) now Kabul, 9 or 10 miles east of Accho.Name of the land given to Hiram by Solomon. (1 Kings 9:10-13)
CAESAR
always in the New Testament the Roman emperor, the sovereign of Judea. (John 19:12,15; Acts 17:7)
CAESAREA
(Acts 8:40; 9:30; 10:1,24; 11:11; 12:19; 18:22; 21:8,16; 23:23,33; 25:1,4,6,13) was situated on the coast of Palestine, on the line of the great road from Tyre to Egypt, and abo...
CAESAREA PHILIPPI
is mentioned only in the first two Gospels, (Matthew 16:13; Mark 8:27) and in accounts of the same transactions. It was at the easternmost and most important of the two recogniz...
CAGE
The term so rendered in (Jeremiah 5:27) is more properly a trap in which decoy birds were placed. In (Revelation 18:2) the (Greek term means a prison.
CAIAPHAS, OR CAIAPHAS
(depression), in full JOSEPH CAIAPHAS, high priest of the Jews under Tiberius. (Matthew 26:3,57; John 11:49; 18:13,14,24,28; Acts 4:6) The procurator Valerius Gratus appointed h...
CAIN
one of the cities in the low country of Judah, named with Zanoah and Gibeah. (Joshua 15:57)
CAIN
(possession). Gen. 4. He was the eldest son of Adam and Eve; he followed the business of agriculture. In a fit of jealousy, roused by the rejection of his own sacrifice and the ...
CAINAN
(possessor)Son of Enos, aged 70 years when he begat Mahalaleel his son. He lived 840 years afterwards, and died aged 910. (Genesis 6:9-14)Son of Arphaxad, and father of Sala, ac...
CALAH
(completion, old age), one of the most ancient cities of Assyria. (Genesis 10:11) The site of Calah is probably market by the Nimrud ruins. If this be regarded as ascertained, C...
CALAMUS
[REED]
CALCOL
(sustenance), a man of Judah, son or descendant of Zerah. (1 Chronicles 2:6) Probably identical with CHALCOL.
CALDRON
a vessel for boiling flesh, for either ceremonial or domestic use. (1 Samuel 2:14; 2 Chronicles 35:13; Job 41:20; Micah 3:3)
CALEB
(capable).According to (1 Chronicles 2:9,18,19,42,50) the son of Hezron the son of Pharez the son of Judah, and the father of Hur, and consequently grandfather of Caleb the spy....
CALF
The calf was held in high esteem by the Jews as food. (1 Samuel 28:24; Luke 15:23) The molten calf prepared by Aaron for the people to worship, (Exodus 32:4) was probably a wood...
CALVARY
[See GOLGATHA]
CAMEL
The species of camel which was in common use among the Jews and the heathen nations of Palestine was the Arabian or one-humped camel, Camelus arabicus. The dromedary is a swifte...
CAMON
(full of grain), the place in which Jair the judge was buried. (Judges 10:5)
CAMP
[ENCAMPMENT]
CAMPHIRE
There can be no doubt that "camphire" is the Lawsonia alba of botanists, the henna of Arabian naturalists. The henna plant grows in Egypt, Syria, Arabia and northern India. The ...
CANA
(place of reeds) of Galilee, once Cana in Galilee, a village or town not far from Capernaum, memorable as the scene of Christ’s first miracle, (John 2:1,11; 4:46) as well as of ...
CANAAN
(Ca’nan) (low, flat).The fourth son of Ham, (Genesis 10:6; 1 Chronicles 1:8) the progenitor of the Phoenicians [ZIDON, OR SIDON], and of the various nations who before the Israe...
CANAAN, THE LAND OF
(lit. lowland), a name denoting the country west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and between those waters and the Mediterranean; given by God to Abraham’s posterity, the childre...
CANAANITE, THE
the designation of the apostle Simon, otherwise known as "Simon Zelotes." It occurs in (Matthew 10:4; Mark 3:18) and is derived from a Chaldee or Syriac word by which the Jewish...
CANAANITES, THE
a word used in two senses:A tribe which inhabited a particular locality of the land west of the Jordan before the conquest; andThe people who inhabited generally the whole of th...